The bishop is not without reason, although he has vowed to renounce the world, to cut off his kinship, and to serve God wholeheartedly, we all know that even the most devout clergy will care about blood relatives, let alone a more secular bishop like Bishop Mazarin. Interestingly, he didn't care much about his poor family, but rather cared for those who helped him when he was still in trouble, such as the former treasurer Particelli Emery, and even the Mancini family, who invested decisively when he was about to become famous, and he even wanted to introduce the Mancini boys to the court, but as we know, although he did, poor Felipe was stabbed in the chest by the king, and two boys, one from the previous riots, and the other from an illness while he was studying- Only a few people know that he died in a dishonorable murder.

So when Monsieur Bishop found that there was no one to inherit his deeds, he decided to hand over to the king's trust, as Richelieu had done before, and in the case of finances he had chosen Fouquet in advance, but then he was disappointed to find that the new treasurer was not only greedy, but also stupid, and did not see at all that the king's connivance with him was simply a noose with his neck; 。

To whom should he give the most important power in his hands? There is no doubt that this unknown power is a double-edged blade, both to the master and to the king, until the king decisively slaughters Felipe, of course, Mr. Bishop does not mean to praise this behavior, after all, Felipe's surname is Mancini, but he really does not like this idiot who is always talking - he just has no choice.

After the initial anger had passed, when the bishop was finally able to recall the incident with peace of mind, he suddenly realized that the king's handling of the matter seemed reckless, but it was the best, and that the best way to save the reputation of Philippe, Prince of Anjou, and to undo the effects of this scandal, was to die one, and the king certainly would not let his brother die, then only Mancini would die, and he took matters into his own hands to ensure that Mr. Bishop could not anger anyone for this matter - he could not punish a king.

But what he appreciated even more was the king's concession to the Mancini family afterwards, yes, as frustrating as it sounded, although Felipe Mancini did enough to put him on the court of both the inner world and the outer world, he was also the eldest son of the Mancini family, even if he was really stupid— Some of the young men were reluctant to complain and resent, but the king accepted this with great ease, and Mr. Bishop noticed that he had complained to Marie in the past, but now he rarely spoke of the Mancini family in front of Marie.

Generally speaking, Mr. Bishop thinks that there are only two possibilities for him not to mention a name, either because he thinks the name is trustworthy or important enough to be forgiven in any case, or because he thinks the name is worthless and dismisses it.

It was difficult for him to think that the king would be biased towards the first, but whether it was the first or the second, Mr. Bishop decided that he wanted to leave his most important inheritance to the king and no one else.

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Mr. Bishop's generosity did make Louis happy, no one can know better than him how important the intelligence network is, but to establish an intelligence network, the first needs money, a lot of money, and the second takes time, and he does not have either for the time being, Mr. Bishop is willing to gradually transfer the power in his hands to him is indeed happy, he can't help but look forward to the gentleman he is going to meet, but the reason why Mr. Bishop said to wait a few more days may be because of the imminent relationship of the big war.

Any stranger will be seen as a target to be watched during the war and migration, and as an agent, he will not be so reckless when he is not at stake.

On a sunny summer day when the war began, and the Spanish and French armies lined up parallel to the coastline, Louis stood at the top of the town, holding a telescope on the bell tower, which could only see three times as far as when it was first invented, and an Italian scholar, Galileo Gallire, learned the trick and built a telescope that could see eight times as far a month later and twenty times as far a month later, and it is said that he could see the uneven surface of the moon- Louis had a telescope thirty times as far away, and here he could see the shoulder straps of the soldiers, and he turned the barrel of the mirror to transfer from the Anglo-French army to the Spaniards, from which it can be seen that the Spaniards still adopted the large phalanx to which they were customary, that is, a phalanx of about a hundred spearmen, with groups of nine musketeers on each of the four corners of the phalanx, and some scattered musketeers wandering in the middle of the phalanx— The king roughly estimated that there were sixty groups of this phalanx, so that meant that the Spanish coalition should have 6,000 soldiers here, and possibly some cavalry and reserves, but basically the number was about the same as that of the Viscount of Tyrrenne.

He saw that Viscount Tyrrenne had unceremoniously put the new model army of England in front, and the bright red coat clearly distinguished them from the others, they did not have an advantage in the terrain, because the Spaniards occupied the high ground, although on the beach, this high ground was only relative, but everyone knew that when fighting, no matter how small the advantage was, it was also an advantage- It can almost be said that according to the usual practice, the artillery was the first, and when the cannon roared and the smoke had not yet dissipated, the new model army began to attack, and their courage and experience were indeed not comparable to that of the current French army, and it took almost only a few minutes for them to close the distance to the point of starting to shoot at each other.

At this time, it is necessary to test each other's courage, people often jokingly say that the musket fire in the seventeenth century is similar to face-to-face suicide, but this is not without reason, firstly, the gun hit rate at this time is very poor, even if a hundred bullets can hit an enemy, even if it is lucky, you can only use a dense formation to ensure the hit; It is impossible to protect oneself with shields or other means, because at this time the guns have to be aimed and charged by standing, not to mention that when attacking, the soldiers have to follow the drum beat and the team flag, rather than staying in one place to shoot; finally, because of the limitations of the guns, the range of thermal weapons at that time was only 60 to 100 feet, such a distance, it often only takes a few seconds to rush in front of the opponent...... Many times, when the ammunition ran out or the officers sensed that they were too close, they would raise their long knives and shout, and all the soldiers would follow him and charge instead of standing there stupidly and shooting.

So the smoke only lasted a few minutes, and the king saw the soldiers in red suits climbing the dunes like violent ants and rushing towards the phalanx of the Spaniards, and the Spaniards' musketeers immediately hid among the spearmen, and those spearmen immediately lowered their spears, and from a distance, it looked like a porcupine suddenly exploded with thorns all over its body, in all four directions, which made people feel creepy, seeing this, Louis did not wonder how the Spaniards were able to rely on this phalanx to cross Europa for nearly half a century。

But if the previous confrontation was a test of the courage of both sides, now it is the courage of the new British Model Army, who rushed desperately, broke through the spearmen in the front line, and broke into the phalanx, so that the phalanx was disorganized, and the soldiers broke up and fled to the bottom of the dunes.

"Ah!" cried the king nervously.

"What?" asked Mr. Bishop.

"Their front is stretched too long. The king said, handing the telescope to Mr. Bishop. Mr. Bishop looked at him amusefully, clenching his fists, after all, he thought, as he put the binoculars in front of him, and in a moment the situation on the battlefield changed, and a cavalry attacked from the left flank of the new model army, almost slaughtering: "That's ...... "The army of the Duke of York," said Mr. Bishop, who distinguished from the shoulder strap and the banner. ”

Then it's no wonder that those new model army and Wang Jun are simply enemies of life and death, and they even left the Spaniards behind, just entangled and killed each other.

"Viscount Tyrrenne has sent cavalry to support. Again, Mr. Bishop.

The king immediately retrieved his binoculars, and he saw that the French cavalry wearing bright red shoulder straps had moved towards the most intense battle, while the Spanish cavalry was a step slower - like the great phalanx of the Spaniards, the French knights of the imperial edict had also galloped in Europa for nearly a hundred years, but in the Battle of Pavia in 1525, the French knights of the imperial edict had defeated the Spanish heavy cavalry, but they had suffered a heavy defeat from the musketeers of the Spanish phalanx- At that time, the Spanish musketeers were armed with Mushkot arquebuses, a large-caliber musket large enough to penetrate heavy armor, and the knights were killed and wounded in that battle.

But when the Spaniards' musketeers had been routed, and in the face of the English and Spanish cavalry, the Knights of the Edict were still brave, crushing two cavalry in succession, and leading the French infantry to attack the Spanish battle line as a vanguard.

Now that all the colors were mixed together, the king felt dizzy, and when he put down the telescope, he realized that his back was so tense that it almost hurt.

"I'll ask Bang Tang to bring some tea and rest for a while. "Mr. Bishop said that the king was not persuaded to leave the tower, let alone the king, and he did not want to.